US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on March 24 for "Using atomic operations to implement a read-write lock" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,634, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Using atomic operations to implement a read-write lock" was invented by Zan Huang (Shanghai), Zhen Huang (Guangdong, China), Xu Guo (Beijing), Lei Wu (Beijing) and Kunlun Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device maintains locking data including a first portion indicating whether a write operation is updating a data item or awaiting to update the data item, and a second portion indicating a number of read operations accessing the data item. A first read operation to the read the data item is received. a first locking condition is dete...